It's almost a pity you stopped. Pathologically optimizing play in a game about pathological optimization would be so meta it hurt. I suppose the next level up

It's almost a pity you stopped. Pathologically optimizing play in a game about pathological optimization would be so meta it hurt. I suppose the next level up would be recruiting a thousand undergrads to optimize strategies for encouraging optimization of the optimizer, but then we've just reinvented psychological research with slightly more rigor.